writer friends, please can you guide me to different places where I could find an agent?

Everyone who participated in this event, filmmakers and critics alike, must reckon with how rotten this institution is and what their motivations were for participating. Putting career ahead of solidarity when there was a clear boycott called for is a morally vacuous position.

Looking forward to the follow up statements from filmmakers who thanked Berlinale for them being able to attend this year. How grotesque a display of censorship and its deployment of criminalization of protest is beyond words.

“We stand for cinema, which doesn’t belong to any political party—it is neither right wing nor left wing.” This is not the prescription of a thoughtful analysis, but the neoliberalized concession to institutionalization. This is an ahistorical depoliticizing…

feel like I'm losing my mind over this Maccabi-Amsterdam story all the media literacy in the world means nothing when the biggest news orgs are reporting a version of events that simply didn't happen

No filmmaker with an ounce of ethic should be applying to/attending Berlinale. The festival should be cut off from a progressive cultural sphere, if we are to even maintain the idea that we are apart of such a sphere to begin with. It is our job as cultural workers to boycott.

You should be mad that North America’s largest film festival has decided to program and platform genocide apologia, but you should *also* be mad that the filmmaker was a previous board member of the festival.

Classic TIFF: making the worst possible decision and getting everyone mad in the process

Mubi threatened to hold this film hostage from its director Eddie Huang. they did this after he publicly opposed their partnership with genocidal private equity firm Sequoia Capital

.Zohran Kwame Mamdani I have told you this on the phone, in person, and I will reiterate it publicly: what you think of the phrase “globalize the intifada”—our beautiful uprising against occupation—is irrelevant, what matters is that it’s a slogan adopted by a movement that is partly

Interesting chronicle of ineptitude, fecklessness, and corruption:

Every day the genocide continues and Israel wipes out entire families

Saying “we must reject political violence in America” while actively funding a genocide is so ridiculous. These people are insane.

actually no one is forcing you to put out a sympathy statement for someone who actively did everything possible to oppress you and direct violence towards you. some of yall look like clowns rn

the bare minimum: 1) calling genocide by its name, 2) having an explicitly anti-zionist public stance, and 3) always naming zionism as both the perpetrator and the root cause of the genocide. anything less than that is cowardly and ahistorical.